Grandmother Tree

Springer’s Point Nature Preserve, Ocracoke, NC

Springer’s Point Nature Preserve, Ocracoke, NC

Grandmother Tree

This Tree. The live oak

at Springer’s Point…

is the Grandmother Tree.

She has magic & wisdom in her

far deeper than mine.

Or yours.

I climb her branches & lay in her folds.

I rest

supported

by her sturdy

& flexible frame.

As she holds me, she whispers the secrets

of the sea

of the stars

of the universe.

As she holds me, she tells me I

am her own.

In the Grandmother Tree

that sits by the sea

I know I am not alone.

by Desirée Christa Ricker

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